Each year thousands of people throughout the country are charged with low-level drug possession charges. Most of these cases are dispensed with by plea agreements and probation terms. However, high-level drug charges are an entirely different matter altogether. Anyone...
Medicare is complex. As a result, it is heavily regulated by the federal government. The Medicare Fraud Strike Force at the Department of Justice, and the Inspector General of Health and Human Services Office have the entire weight and resources of the federal...
There are many people in Florida who use Medicare for their health insurance and it is used for the medical procedures these individuals need. The medical providers will therefore bill Medicare for payment of their services and for the medical equipment that the...
There are several reasons why a person would face federal crimes. There are several crimes that can lead to federal charges including health care fraud that involves federal health care systems. There are now fraud offices in many cities across the U.S. that...
Millions of Americans rely on Medicare for their first line of insurance against medical bills. Other Americans have been accused of using Medicare payments as a source of fraudulent revenue. What, exactly, is Medicare fraud? Basically, Medicare fraud is billing...
The federal government frequently conducts inquiries into those who seek payments from Medicare. In some instances, it makes allegations of fraud. This could lead to charges for a physician, those working in some capacity at a medical facility, or individuals accused...
Prison (or the threat of prison) is supposed to be a deterrent to criminal activity. In reality, prison is often just a temporary holding ground through which an endless parade of the convicted is constantly rotated. A late-2019 report by the Prison Policy Initiative...
Recently, one of the country's most notorious white collar criminals, Bernie Madoff, 82, petitioned the court to give him a compassionate release from his 150-year sentence because he is terminally ill from end-stage kidney disease. However, the judge in Madoff's...
Why would someone face federal crimes? There are several reasons that investigators or prosecutors from Washington or field offices around the country could take an interest in a case. One is criminal activity that may be happening across state lines or on federal...
The dismissal of more than 90 additional drug convictions are expected in 11 years’ worth of cases involving a disgraced former Houston police officer. Prosecutors made the announcement in May regarding investigations led by ex-narcotics officer Gerald Goines. He has...
